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Rollcage Stage II

Rollcage Stage II, also released as Death Track Racing, is a 2000 racing video game developed by Attention to Detail and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation and Microsoft Windows. It is the sequel to Rollcage; unlike its predecessor, Psygnosis did not publish the game anywhere, In addition to basic racing, the game also utilizes combat elements. The game's playable vehicles are equipped with weapons, which are collected along the track as bonus items and can be used against competing cars. The vehicles themselves have wheels that are larger than their bodies, allowing them to still be rendered drivable while flipped upside down.

Development
The game was originally intended to be released in the U.S. in early March 2000, == Soundtrack ==
Soundtrack
The game featured a licensed soundtrack that included various electronic music artists. An official soundtrack album was released on CD and vinyl by Moving Shadow in March 2000. ==Reception==
Reception
Rollcage Stage II received "favourable" reviews, while Death Track Racing received "average" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. GameSpot praised the game's sound effects and variety in gameplay modes, and said the game's graphics and physics were an improvement over its predecessor. However, they criticized the game's soundtrack. ==Spiritual successors==
Spiritual successors
While Attention to Detail (ATD) and Psygnosis did not continue on the Rollcage series after Rollcage Stage II, ATD later developed the game Firebugs featuring roughly the same racing concept. After the end of support by the developers and publishers, a former ATD developer who previously worked on the Rollcage games, Robert Baker, released in 2014 updated builds of the games' Windows versions. These builds, based on the original source code, fix longstanding bugs and update both games for use on modern operating systems: Rollcage Redux for Rollcage and Rollcage Extreme for Rollcage Stage II. In 2015, Robert Baker approached former ATD and Rollcage teammate David Perryman to form Caged Element under the impulsion of entrepreneur Chris Mallinson. Caged Element launched a Kickstarter campaign for Grip, a spiritual successor for the Rollcage series. A prototype was completed before the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign using Unreal Engine 4. The development staff has two people who worked on the Rollcage series and the soundtrack has artists Technical Itch and Dom & Roland who were on the soundtrack for Rollcage Stage II. However, the campaign was canceled after some time. Grip: Combat Racing was released in November 2018 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. ==Notes==
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